03-01-2010, 11:42 AM
And what about the people who did work hard? The people who did code it from scratch could potentially lose to someone who did a simple edit of a superior engine. Though I think we can come to a compromise:
Two badges are given out, one is the very pretty and very prestigious Code Warrior Badge that is determined by reviewing the coding techniques (thus it would not be an open voting because of code thieves, but it would be a judged by both you and I and we would have to agree on who gets it). The lesser but still pretty and prestigious Design Star Badge would be voted upon since it doesn't require seeing the code. Using an engine would disqualify you from Code Warrior, but you could still win Design Star. So one badge for the skilled and one badge for the creative.
Of course the development-based badge would look nicer because it's a game development comp, but the design-based badge would still look pretty cool.
Two badges are given out, one is the very pretty and very prestigious Code Warrior Badge that is determined by reviewing the coding techniques (thus it would not be an open voting because of code thieves, but it would be a judged by both you and I and we would have to agree on who gets it). The lesser but still pretty and prestigious Design Star Badge would be voted upon since it doesn't require seeing the code. Using an engine would disqualify you from Code Warrior, but you could still win Design Star. So one badge for the skilled and one badge for the creative.
Of course the development-based badge would look nicer because it's a game development comp, but the design-based badge would still look pretty cool.